grub configured with wrong uuid when a /boot partition is present

[Michael Chang]

Binary package hint: grub-installer

The Interpid Daily Alternate CD from October 17th installs GRUB with the UUID of the root (/) partition, even when a /boot partition is present. This causes the first boot to fail until the offending line is replaced with a corrected root or uuid line.

michael@kiwi:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

[Michael Chang (thenewme91)]

Generated menu.lst config file

[Michael Chang (thenewme91)]

michael@kiwi:/boot/grub$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-10-19 15:40 22474639-59c8-48f8-a1a7-cf8f002b67c5 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-10-19 15:40 54627783-5c87-4fbd-92e2-917dae447dc4 -> ../../sda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-10-19 15:40 75f67f32-4549-412d-84c6-4554097d5548 -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-10-19 19:40 7C2E-584E -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-10-19 15:40 7c6b616b-7ca5-44eb-b11c-5c5b13e4df09 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-10-19 15:40 9f0c4bc2-2174-438b-b955-429b0dcd2923 -> ../../sda9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-10-19 15:40 C4E02A3EE02A36D8 -> ../../sda1

[Michael Chang (thenewme91)]

contents of /etc/fstab

[Mike Wescott (wescott)]

See bug id 285269 for a proposed patch to update-grub